Li Zihan said: "Even if I am afraid of the amount, I can't support it for a few days, there are too many brothers who have come over, and what I am more worried about is that there may be more brothers coming to eat tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and we will accept it or not?" ”

Thinking of this, Xu Shijiu's head suddenly became as big as a fight.

Before this, Xu Jiujiu never thought that he would have a headache because there were too many brothers who came to surrender, how can he say it? This is called the trouble of happiness, but it is really troublesome and nerve-wracking

Shu Tongwen said: "Captain, do you want to dismiss some of it?" ”

Gao Shenxing said: "Lao Xu, I was just about to tell you this, I just went to the shelter to see, these soldiers who came over from Toucheng are too poor in quality, all of them are thin and don't pull up, they can fall down when the wind blows, many people haven't grown up yet, they are just little hairy children, how can such a person be a soldier?" ”

It must be said that with the deepening of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army gradually gained a firm foothold behind enemy lines.

Because the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army actively resisted Japan, although the scale of each battle was very small and the number of enemies killed was very small, they were indeed fighting against small Japan, and their own casualties were often small, so there were more and more veterans with combat experience, and the combat effectiveness of the troops was getting stronger and stronger.

As soon as the combat effectiveness of the troops is strong, the blow to the Japanese puppet army will be more powerful.

In addition, the discipline of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army was relatively good, so the common people naturally trusted the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, and were willing to send their own children to join the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.

On the other hand, the national army is not the same at all.

Because of his trust in the German adviser Falkenhausen, who was completely ignorant of China's national conditions, Chairman Chiang chose a wrong military line, which directly led to the death of the most elite 59 German armourers in the Battle of Songhu and the battlefield of Nanjing

After the loss of 6,700,000 elite veterans, the recruitment of troops was no longer enough to make up for the huge gap in troops, and the Nationalist Government had to adopt such extreme methods as forcibly arresting strong men to replenish its troops.

However, how can a temporary strong man be compared to a veteran who has been in battle for a long time? After discovering that the combat effectiveness of the troops was drastically reduced, Chairman Chiang had no choice but to expand the size of the troops in an attempt to make up for the lack of quality with quantity.

Then, it is to keep consuming the strong men, and then keep catching more strong men.

As a result, more and more strong men were arrested, and the size of the troops became larger and larger, but the overall combat effectiveness of the national army was not improving, but was constantly declining, and this completely entered a vicious circle

At this point, the situation in the third theater is the worst, because of the lack of soldiers, in many places even children under the age of sixteen have been captured, but these poor little hairy children have not yet grown, but they are forcibly escorted to the battlefield, to the battlefield, their end can be imagined, the war will not be warm, and the bullets will not fly around because you are a child.

So far, the vast majority of the troops of the Nationalist Army in the Third Theater, with the exception of a few units, have been so unevenly old and young that they are simply drawn to make up for their courage.

That's why Gao Shenxing is so angry.

"And this?" Xu Nineteen was a little surprised.

At that moment, Xu Shijiu pulled Shu Tongwen, Li Zihan and Gao Shenxing to the shelter again, this shelter was specially set up to accept the officers and soldiers of the First Army Surrender Cheng, saying that it was a shelter, but in fact, it was specially built a row of shacks to cook for these officers and soldiers to eat.

When Xu Nineteen and the four arrived, there was already a long queue outside the shelter.

Although it was not yet time for dinner, because there were veterans of the 19th detachment with submachine guns on their chests on both sides to maintain order, the order of the more than a dozen columns was not bad, and no one made trouble or dared to cut in line.

Xu Nineteen ordered Gao Shenxing to pull out one of the queues.

There were about 100 people in this queue, and Xu Shijiu looked at it at a glance, and more than half of the officers and soldiers were not as tall as his shoulders, and they were all too thin, and when the wind blew, they were really shaky, as if they might fall down at any time.

Xu Shijiu walked up to one of the little hairy children and asked softly, "Little brother, what's your name?" Where are the people? ”

The little hairy boy lowered his head and his mouth was shimping, but he couldn't hear what he was saying.

Xu Jiu didn't hear clearly, so he patted the child's face and said loudly: "You be louder, I can't hear clearly." ”

As a result, the child collapsed to the ground.

Xu Shijiu was dumbfounded, how could this be? Shu Tongwen hurriedly ran over, picked up the child, opened his eyelids and looked at the child's pupils, and then said to Xu Shijiu: "It's okay, it's just that I'm fainting, I guess I'm hungry." ”

"Sir, when will we eat, we will starve to death."

"Yes, sir, we're hungry, hungry."

"Boss, give us a bite to eat, just one bite."

As soon as Shu Tongwen's voice fell, the more than 100 "officers and soldiers" began to shout one after another.

"Lao Xu, look at it, look at it, where the hell are the soldiers?" Gao Shenxing pointed to these so-called "soldiers" with yellow faces and thin muscles, and said to Xu Shijiu, "Where are these soldiers, this is clearly a group of refugees, I really don't know where Gu Zhutong and Shangguan Yunxiang were arrested, let alone what is the use of them arresting these refugees, and you still want to count on them to fight Little Japan?" Let's rest early. ”

Li Zihan pulled out a tall and strong one from the queue and said: "Lao Gao, don't say anything so ugly, the poor physical fitness of the Chinese people is a reality, you can't expect every recruit to be like you, don't you see, there are excellent ones in it." ”

Xu Shijiu nodded silently, among these officers and soldiers who came over, there are indeed some officers and soldiers who have excellent physical conditions, but the proportion is still small, almost one or two out of ten, in other words, there are at most two or three thousand of these fifteen thousand people who can barely be soldiers, and the rest are either too thin or too small, either too old or too short.

It's just that how to get rid of these unqualified people is also a problem.

At that moment, Xu Shijiu took out a soldier from the queue who looked like he was already in his fifties, and tried his best to calm his tone, and asked, "Uncle, where are you from?" ”

"Zhejiang Yongkang." The uncle lowered his head, and his voice was as small as a mosquito.

However, Xu Shijiu finally heard it clearly, and asked again: "Are you willing to stay as a soldier?" ”

"Do you have anything to eat?" The uncle's eyes immediately lit up, and he said, "If I have food, I will stay as a soldier, and if I have no food, I will still go home." ”

Xu Shijiu nodded, and said in his heart that you should go home.

At that moment, Xu Shijiu called Shu Tongwen, Gao Shenxing, and Li Zihan to the side, and said: "It seems that we must conduct the most basic screening of these officers and soldiers who have defected to Chengcheng, and those who are too poor in physical fitness, suffer from diseases or have bad habits will be dismissed."

Gao Shenxing said: "Lao Xu, if they are dispersed like this, I am afraid that it will be difficult for them to return to their hometown alive, after all, some people's hometowns are not close. ”

Xu Shijiu said again: "Then everyone will be given ten catties of brown rice and save some food, which should be enough for them to go home." ”

Gao Shenxing said: "Ten catties of brown rice per person, more than 10,000 people are more than 100,000 catties, this is good, the grain just transported from Longkou will bottom out again." ”

Xu Shijiu also sighed, if you don't know the price of firewood and rice, only when you stand in a high position, you will know that it is not so easy to be a chief, not to mention him, just feeding tens of thousands of strong men, it is not an easy task.

(Dividing Line)

The good news of the Third War Zone finally reached Chongqing.

Upon learning that Shangguan Yunxiang's group army had completely annihilated the main force of the New Fourth Army in southern Anhui in the first battle of Maolin and had completely smashed the command organs of the New Fourth Army, Chairman Chiang could not help but feel greatly relieved, and this was the only victory won by the Nationalist army since the friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

Chairman Jiang could completely imagine what kind of reaction Yan'an would have when he learned the news, and when he thought of Mao Zedong's old rival being angry, Chairman Jiang couldn't help but want to look up to the sky and laugh a few times.

To tell the truth, since Mao Zedong became the head of the Communist Party of China, Chairman Chiang has never taken advantage of him in the contest with him